YOM X CECCALDI – Le Rythme Du Silence – LP – Vinyl [OCT 10]

LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl.

This is the story of an artist in search of sound and breath: an artist who dares to question the rhythm of silencean invitation to rethink music, sound, and musical collaboration. This is the story of a journey that, after opening countless paths, has finally found its vesseland its messengers. Three artists of profound musical truth and radical freedom, merging into an exceptional trio that crosses genres and transcends words in a journey toward pure emotion.

Le Rythme du Silence is the culmination of this long search. Yom delivers it here with violinist Tho Ceccaldi and cellist Valentin Ceccaldikindred spirits in sound. Ive been working on this idea of the rhythm of silence for years, Yom explains. I first heard the phrase from a Sufi master, describing the foundation of meditation. It struck something deep in me. Ive practiced meditation for a long time, and we often think of it as a kind of stillnessopposed to noise and life. But in truth, the rhythm of silence enables meditation. It means accepting that the world continues to move and live around you, even as you try to be still. I wanted to compose from that place. To imagine sound as vibratory matterthe primal substance of creation. That required letting go of fixed structures: forgetting melodies, abandoning the idea of a constructed solo. I needed to leave behind music as a system, and touch sound as a living, breathing entity. It took years. Many projects led me elsewhere. But with the Ceccaldi brothers, I finally found the right resonance. Working with them was simply obviousit was indredibly powerful.

Yom first rose to prominence reimagining Jewish traditional music with his 2008 debut New King of Klezmer Clarinet. Since then, his path has led through rock (With Love, 2011; You Will Never Die, 2018), electronic utopias (The Empire of Love, 2013), meditative and sacred soundscapes (Prire, 2018), and countless unclassifiable hybrids (Unue, 2009; Green Apocalypse, 2010). It was inevitable that he would eventually cross paths with the free-spirited Tho and Valentin Ceccalditwo artists who also place collaboration and genre-blurring at the heart of their artistic development. Their projects are always bold, demanding, and full of life (Kutu, Tricollectif, ONJ, Velvet Revolution, Grand Orchestre du Tricot, Lagon Noir, Constantine, etc.). And so, when the three met within the iXi string quartet, something clicked.

I was seated between the two of them in the quartet, Yom recalls, and I could feel their energy flowing from both sidesit was wild! Theyre so tuned into each other, they dont need words. Its like theyre connected by musical Wi-Fi. The groove happens instantly. Theyre precise when they want to bethanks to their experience in pop-influenced projects but they can also let go completely, diving into pure sound. Thats exactly what this project needed.

Without a single rehearsal, the trio formed instinctively. They began performing Yoms compositions live, unfolding them into a single continuous piece, where clarinet and strings stretch the limits of sound and breath.Bowed, plucked, or prepared with clothespins, the Ceccaldi strings engage in a playful and intense dialogue with Yoms custom B-flat clarinet. Through their imaginative listening and fearless invention, air and space open into a vast new soundscapeone that lies somewhere between meditation and healing music.

When Yom shared the concept of the rhythm of silence, we were immediately drawn in, says cellist Valentin Ceccaldi. Theres a deep intensity and spiritual commitment in his music that really spoke to me. With this trio, were trying to dive into the core of soundbut also to create a kind of communion with the audience. Its like gradually turning up the volume on silence, and realising its made of countless tiny soundsthe music of particles in motion” This stripped-down intensity demands full presencebody and mindof these three musicians, vibrationally connected in a state close to trance. With them, we enter a journey – not religious, but sacred nonetheless.

The Rhythm of Silence becomes an echo of our most intimate, most distant inner landscapes. An albumand a trioto return to without end.

Tracklist:

A1. Silent Path (Emergence)
A2. Sacred Lake
A3. The Void
A4. Sacred Light

B1. A Prayer
B2. Angry Prayer
B3. Incantation
B4. Silent Path (Cantique)